[Adium-devl] Of Spotlight, Tiger, and Panther

[Ofri Wolfus]

Why not to just drop 10.3 support?

- Ofri

On 20/03/2006, at 03:10, Augie Fackler wrote:

> The new log viewer (when the Spotlight importer decides to behave)  
> is nicely functional, but sadly it breaks Adium on 10.3. The only  
> clean-ish solution that I've found to this at the moment is to use  
> loadable bundles so that the Adium binary itself never actually  
> directly links against the Spotlight functions in SearchKit.
>
> The options that I see are as follow:
> 1) Build a mini-class in a plugin that has some class methods that  
> wrap themselves around the SK functions we need, and load it only  
> if NSApp reports YES on -isOnTigerOrBetter
> 2) Build a pair of LogViewerController classes, put each one in a  
> separate plugin, and then load the correct one based on which  
> version of the OS we're on. (Note: this looks like it will result  
> in some code duplication).
> 3) Find some way to weak link against SearchKit, but it looks like  
> the only "clean" way to do that is to weak link against  
> CoreServices, which I get the strange feeling is a Bad Idea.
>
> I'm perfectly capable of and willing to implement option 1, and I  
> think I can have it done in only a few minutes. I've got ready  
> access to a Panther machine for the next week, so if I don't hear  
> anything back, I'll just do option 1 until I've got a working  
> binary on 10.3.
>
> -AF
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